Well, open is just an alias for file, so my novice butt is guessing
bugfix.
And once you've opened it; it doesn't seem there's much you can do with it
anyway. (this is in 2.2)
>>> x = file('.', 'rb')
>>> x.readline()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in ?
x.readline()
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
Keith